Happiness

Happiness?
Is that the ultimate aim?
Does life culminate,
climax, to explode
into the loud pandemonium
of a breathless euphoria?

The sun shines warmly
accepting its innate loss;
gloriously, gratefully almost
giving away heat.

I feel a loss, but feel again
Life's paradoxes balance.
While i realise a pain
I know of added happiness.

Happiness and euphoria
become synonymous,
after a while of give and take.

For emotions starved
a pinch of happiness is
a pinch of euphoria.

Usha, 30 Jan, 84